What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

Found out my wheel bearings are in great shape. The reason for the grinding and noise was sticky/bad calipers, the noise was just my tires. Gonna throw on some napa remans and wheelers lines this weekend.

 

Always nice to get good news like that when you already suspect worse.

 

Yea, makes feel alot better.

 

Mine is mounted a bit lower but I still go through the car wash with my light bar, spare tire mounted vertically and jerry cans in the back. I only lower the radio antenna and my CB antenna.

 

I need to call my dealership again about getting mine looked at. I can't tell if it's the wheel bearing or tires howling...

 

$80 Crimp Supply Ultra-Flexible Car Battery/Welding Cable - 2 Gauge, (10 Feet Red/10 Feet Black) - and 5 Copper Lugs

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0161KSPB8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

This was enough for me.

 

I wash my truck by hand with a pressure washer. My truck is hand wash only

 

Jack up the truck, take off the wheel and spin the hub...if you hear grinding/rattling and it doesn't want to spin freely as easily as it should, then you have a bad bearing. Pretty easy to tell once you remove the wheel.

 

I'm going to make some cheapies from some corrugated plastic material (like they use for election campaign signs), and use a few pieces of the wrap-around-on-itself Velcro to hold them. Just paint them black. Might even get creative with some lettering!!

 

I want to make something like these soft covers, since they're $30 each from Amazon (4 of those covers would cost twice as much as my 4 LED lights cost me)

 

Sitting in a Toyota service dept for the first time in forever. Hope the cruiser can be sorted out without too much fuss. Dude here is super into Land Cruisers so hopefully he has seen something like this before.

 

Saw my new crush just now, only if i could make her mine lol

 

I always thought they look goofy when stock...tiny tires and all. They sure do look badass though when lifted/built up.

 

I love those, trying to get my roommate to buy one.

 

Yeah i would exo skeleton and throw some 1tons and 40s on it...

 

My 3 dream cars
Fj40
Fj80
1st gen 4 runner

I have a thing for old cars lol. I rather have some 20+ years old thats kinda beat up but cool to me then a shiny new car.

Maybe im just weird...

Edit there is a 4th truck
1985 hilux

 

I prefer my vehicles to be of drinking age as well. New ones don't do much for me. The cruiser is comfortable and I can use it to commute in the snow (future plans). The taco is capable, rock solid, cheap to own. Need to get an 80s 300zx in the mix soon. And oddly enough I want the crappiest of all 4Runners but I'm waiting for the right one. (89-92 2nd gen with 3.slow, auto, hydraulic tcase, without power locks or windows, no factory swing out) the absolute shittiest combo you could buy, but someone very special in my family had one when I was growing up and I'd like to recreate it.

 

Yeah old cars are just better.

My dream build is a 85 hilux with 1tons, 40s. Sua, crazy gears like 7.16 and a small little 4 banger that will just chug away all day.

I rather be under engine over axel in a rock crawler

 

That literally just sounds like Clampy...